Sixty-eighth General Assembly

Plenary

34^th Meeting (AM)

General Assembly Elects Chad, Chile, Lithuania, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia

As Non-Permanent Members of Security Council

 

New Candidates Sail Through After Single Ballot

In one round of voting, the General Assembly today elected Chad, Chile, Lithuania, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia to serve as non-permanent members of the Security Council for the next two years.

Those elected will fill seats to be vacated on 31 December by Azerbaijan, Guatemala, Morocco, Pakistan and Togo.  Argentina, Australia, Luxembourg, Republic of Korea and Rwanda will continue to serve as elected Council members during 2014, completing the second year of their respective terms.  All new Council members will take their seats on 1 January 2014.

The five non-permanent members were elected according to the following pattern:  three seats for African and Asia- Pacific States, one seat for Eastern European States, and one seat for Latin American and Caribbean States.  Each newly elected member met the required two-thirds majority of the vote.

The Assembly will next convene on Monday, 21 October, to take up the Secretary-General’s report on follow-up to the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.

Voting Results

African and Asia-Pacific States
Number of ballot papers:	191
Number of invalid ballots:	0
Number of valid ballots:	191
Abstentions:	0
Number of Members present and voting:	191
Required majority:	128
Number of votes obtained by country:
Nigeria	186
Chad	184
Saudi Arabia	176
Senegal	2
Gambia	2
Lebanon	1
Eastern European States
Number of ballot papers:	191
Number of invalid ballots:	1
Number of valid ballots:	190
Abstentions:	2
Number of Members present and voting:	188
Required majority:	126
Number of votes obtained by country:
Lithuania	187
Croatia	1
Latin American and Caribbean States
Number of ballot papers:	191
Number of invalid ballots:	0
Number of valid ballots:	191
Abstentions:	5
Number of Members present and voting:	186
Required majority:	124
Number of votes obtained by country:
Chile	186

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